Laser51088, you are right that there is no place without
loyalty.
One should be loyal to the family, to ones friends, and to ones
country.
The direction of my first posting was that all these talks of
waging war with Malaysia at this stage will only mirror ourselves
as unsophisticated and unthinking rabbles, who are no better then
those crude goateed people hollering outside our Singapore embassy
in Kuala Lumpur.
I have quoted the innocence of two young children, who are born out
of the wedlock of parents from two different countries; and who
without any training in diplomacy, these two children made an
innocent statement of honesty.
Loyalty towards nations is a political development of ones
attitude as one become politicize over the years as we grow
old.
Malaysia and Singapore, and the rest of the member states of ASEAN,
could easily become like the different states of the European
Community; if we learn to be humans and drop the barriers of
POLITICAL BORDERS, and amalgamate our countries into one common
community.
One day, like the honest comments of these two children, we can
openly say that we are a Thai, Malay, an Indian, Vietnamese,
Sumatran, Javanese, Achenese, Chinese, Filipino all these names
of our birth origin as a source of identity, without the need of
feeling politically racist or nationalistic.
War between Singapore and Malaysia will be disastrous for both
countries, and also for this whole ASEAN region.
We should be better than those hot headed guys with goatees that
are only good at waving placards and shouting slogans and making
wild rhetoric in public places.
Let us not show our cards too early, but play it cool.
Towards this end, I respect our Ministers for their levelheaded
responses in the Press and in Public, when questions are raised as
to our response to the Malaysians wild behaviour and provacative
rhetoric.
